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title: גַּבַּחַת — bald forehead · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גַּבַּחַת (1372), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: bald forehead. BDB 1906: n.f. bald forehead. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גַּבַּחַת

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«גַּבַּחַת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bald forehead** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 1372 · **BDB:** גַּבַּ֫חַת

### Glosses

his.bald (2); forehead (1); its.bald (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bald forehead [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1372/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. bald forehead [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1372/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bald forehead (NH id., Aramaic ܓܒܳܚܽܘܬܳܐ ), only Lv 13—abs. Lv 13:42 (P; asson. בְּקָרַ֫חַת אוֹ בַגַּבַּ֫חַת); גַּבַּחְתּוֹ v 42, 43 (both P \& ‖ קָרַחְתּוֹ); in all, as place of appearance of an eruption; v 55 (P; ‖ id.) = in its front, i.e. front of garment.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גַּבַּחַת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1372/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 13:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.42/)

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וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֤ה בַקָּרַ֙חַת֙ א֣וֹ בַגַּבַּ֔חַת נֶ֖גַע לָבָ֣ן אֲדַמְדָּ֑ם צָרַ֤עַת פֹּרַ֙חַת֙ הִ֔וא בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ א֥וֹ בְגַבַּחְתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) it.will.be on the.bald spot or on the.bald forehead a.plague white reddish \[is\].a.serious.skin.disease \[which.is\].breaking.out it on his.bald spot or on his.bald forehead

*JPS 1917:* But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

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[Leviticus 13:43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.43/)

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וְרָאָ֨ה אֹת֜וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֗ן וְהִנֵּ֤ה שְׂאֵת־הַנֶּ֙גַע֙ לְבָנָ֣ה אֲדַמְדֶּ֔מֶת בְּקָרַחְתּ֖וֹ א֣וֹ בְגַבַּחְתּ֑וֹ כְּמַרְאֵ֥ה צָרַ֖עַת ע֥וֹר בָּשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.see it the priest and there! the.swelling of the.plague \[is\].white reddish on his.bald spot or on his.bald forehead like.\[the\] appearance of.a.serious.skin.disease of.skin of.flesh

*JPS 1917:* Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh,

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